Ingwe
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Shot my bull in Alaska at 75yds with a 230gr VLD at 2975fps with my 300RUM. Worked just fine.
Where did you hit him?
Shot my bull in Alaska at 75yds with a 230gr VLD at 2975fps with my 300RUM. Worked just fine.
Heck of a bull ! Congrats !View attachment 163269 2019 Alaskan bull, 230gr berger 300RUM, 75yds.
View attachment 163269 2019 Alaskan bull, 230gr berger 300RUM, 75yds.
I think what happens a lot, is there are people who get to hunt all over the country or on ranches and are guide's that kill or whiteness lots of kills every year. The 215 kills. I have killed animals with them and no problems. I think there are WAY more people who get into long range hunting and don't practice enough or at all and take shots they shouldn't. They get a rifle that shoots 1/2"'at 100 yards and then think they can kill an animal at 1k. There are lots of bad long range shots taken. The more I shoot 1 k on paper the more I realize how much can change so fast. So you hear about how Bergers don't work because people try and shoot the shoulder. Or make bad long range shots. You do not want to shoulder punch an elk or deer with a vld. I am a bow hunter before I got into shooting. I always go for double lung. Only other bullet I would try is a LRAB. I personally have not had any issues with Bergers. Hybrids hold together better than VLD'S (thicker jacket). T
What is truth, is in fact the truth ! I totally agree with your post!
I shot my first critter with the Berger this fall. It was successful. the shot was 386 yards on an adult pronghorn buck. After the autopsy, I concluded that COD was blood loss due to extensive tissue damage. The wound channel resembled that of similar type wounds caused by: Nosler Partition, Ballistic Tip, and Accubond - Sierra TGK, GK, Pro Hunter, and MK - Berger VLD H, HY, OTM, and JT - Speer Hot Core and Grand Slam - Federal Fusion and Hi Shok - Winchester Silver Tip, Power Point, and XP - Remington Core-Lokt and Bronze Point...
Bergers with proper load development and good shot placement fly really straight and I have shot alot of animals with them when they hit the bullet fragments fly everywhere in side dropping the animal with a quick humane kill. They are a custom bullet and you have to make them shoot tight out of your personal rifle. If you have a bad hit or force a bad shot no bullet will work right. All good tings come to he that can shoot straight.I really want to shoot the 215 Hybrid, despite witnessing poor performance with the VLD with my own eyes. So I started really using the Google and reading real world reports here there and everywhere. The one thing that I realized, there is a very vocal group of people who are members of every single forum on the internets. There are like 3-4 people who are members of every shooting forum that ever was and post on all of them day in and day out. Don't you people have something better to do? Anyway, when you really weed through the "amazing" reports from the vocal minority, you find a lot of more joe average type guys who don't have the best things to say but seem to get drowned out or shouted down by a couple people who allegedly have killed ten thousand game animals without a failure.
Is it all guerrilla marketing?
Bergers with proper load development and good shot placement fly really straight and I have shot alot of animals with them when they hit the bullet fragments fly everywhere in side dropping the animal with a quick humane kill. They are a custom bullet and you have to make them shoot tight out of your personal rifle. If you have a bad hit or force a bad shot no bullet will work right. All good tings come to he that can shoot straight.